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concrit_xI want to receive feedback by : comments on AO3 and/or comments on my DW post in this community
Here are the works I want feedback on: Any fic posted on my AO3. Some of the fics were written and first published before my eight-year hiatus, in 2005-2010, and when posting them on AO3 in 2020, I didn't backdate them, only mentioned the year of writing in the notes. In a way I'd prefer feedback on post-hiatus work (because I used to have a chance to discuss my fics in forum and LJ comments back in the day), but it would also be lovely if the commenter compared the styles in an old fic and a recent one. I'd particularly love feedback on The Angel of Charity, or This Awfully Long Month, which is (awfully long for a non-chaptered story :D) almost 20K words, or Any Gift of True Caring, which is almost 14K words. But I've got around 130 clearly shorter fics (grouped into 13 series) to choose from. They all belong to the same canon-divergent universe, but each is meant to work also separately.
My works' fandoms and content notes are: All my fanfic is in the Harry Potter fandom. I'm not sure I've been good at tagging, but I guess my stories are generally gentle or subtle even when the theme is grief or hardship, and I don't write long, detailed scenes of sex or violence. In a couple of fics there are brief moments of dubcon, and in a few there are references to childhood sexual abuse, and those are tagged.
I have these questions for readers: How does the opening work? Does it establish clearly enough where and when we are, and in whose perspective? And can it actually work for readers that I take them to share directly what the character experiences, thinks and feels at each moment? Is there something about the style that makes the writing not approachable? (If you are familiar with the HP fandom, even though you don't write in it) do you think there's something outdated about the scenarios in my stories? Is there also something that's refreshing or otherwise interesting? Is the conclusion rewarding or perhaps too ambiguous? (Particularly if there is no beta mentioned in my notes) what kind of language errors (which specific ones, if you don't mind commenting in such detail) do you find? Feel free to ignore these questions, as I'll be happy about any thoughtful review!
The style of feedback I prefer to receive is: (Because a lot of these fics have got very little attention and love from readers) I'd like to hear also what works for you, in addition to what (kind of errors) I could fix in these texts and what I could improve in my style when writing new stories.
Comments to this post will be: unscreened
Here are the works I want feedback on: Any fic posted on my AO3. Some of the fics were written and first published before my eight-year hiatus, in 2005-2010, and when posting them on AO3 in 2020, I didn't backdate them, only mentioned the year of writing in the notes. In a way I'd prefer feedback on post-hiatus work (because I used to have a chance to discuss my fics in forum and LJ comments back in the day), but it would also be lovely if the commenter compared the styles in an old fic and a recent one. I'd particularly love feedback on The Angel of Charity, or This Awfully Long Month, which is (awfully long for a non-chaptered story :D) almost 20K words, or Any Gift of True Caring, which is almost 14K words. But I've got around 130 clearly shorter fics (grouped into 13 series) to choose from. They all belong to the same canon-divergent universe, but each is meant to work also separately.
My works' fandoms and content notes are: All my fanfic is in the Harry Potter fandom. I'm not sure I've been good at tagging, but I guess my stories are generally gentle or subtle even when the theme is grief or hardship, and I don't write long, detailed scenes of sex or violence. In a couple of fics there are brief moments of dubcon, and in a few there are references to childhood sexual abuse, and those are tagged.
I have these questions for readers: How does the opening work? Does it establish clearly enough where and when we are, and in whose perspective? And can it actually work for readers that I take them to share directly what the character experiences, thinks and feels at each moment? Is there something about the style that makes the writing not approachable? (If you are familiar with the HP fandom, even though you don't write in it) do you think there's something outdated about the scenarios in my stories? Is there also something that's refreshing or otherwise interesting? Is the conclusion rewarding or perhaps too ambiguous? (Particularly if there is no beta mentioned in my notes) what kind of language errors (which specific ones, if you don't mind commenting in such detail) do you find? Feel free to ignore these questions, as I'll be happy about any thoughtful review!
The style of feedback I prefer to receive is: (Because a lot of these fics have got very little attention and love from readers) I'd like to hear also what works for you, in addition to what (kind of errors) I could fix in these texts and what I could improve in my style when writing new stories.
Comments to this post will be: unscreened
